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...carry out the plan, Radcliffe administrators say they will soon lauch a capital campaign that they hope will double he size of the college's $100 million endowment...
...lost a huge gob of capital and hidden assets which might otherwise have been used to hasten defeated Germany's return to power. Even more important, the Swiss measures established a precedent for similar safeguards in other neutral countries where the Nazis might seek financial and personal shelter. "Lauch" Currie had British, French and U.S. associates on his mission, but he was entitled to a personal accolade when he returned to Washington. Said he : "This really ends the last hope of the Nazis for establishing themselves through the safe haven of property held abroad...
...whom the Reorganization Act allows him. When the news came out one astute reporter dashed over to the white marble palace of the Federal Reserve Board. He wanted to be the first to bring the good news to the President's new economic adviser. He was. Economist Lauchlin ("Lauch") Currie, a man whose economic ideas will henceforth be of No. 1 concern to U. S. business, thanked...
...Lauch Currie probably comes nearer to having a passion for anonymity than any other New Deal adviser. First evidence of Currie's growing technical weight in Washington came in the spring of 1938, when he wrote an influential memo on the Causes of the Recession. Its prime theses, now commonplace: 1) U. S. Social Security taxes took so much out of the public pocketbook that the Government's net contribution was reduced during the crucial March-September period in 1937 to a monthly average of $60,000,000 from $335,000,000 during 1936. 2) "Compensatory" Federal spending...
Thomas Stevens, of bicycling fame, has the first chapter of "Across Europe in a Petroleum Launch. From the German Ocean to the Black Sea." It is the description of a trip in a naptha lauch, up the Elbe, across to the Danube, and down to the Black Sea. The syle is very bright and vivid, and the article makes delightful reading, like nearly all of Stevens' work...